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Tin Man

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDFrom the internationally bestselling author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes a heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms, and the moments that illuminate the life of one man.This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that.

Reviews

Tin Man sparkles with a timeless beauty that few other authors can invoke... disarmingly lovely and unequivocally heart breaking...Forget every other novel released this month and just read Tin Man, it's the perfect tale of love, loss and life

Culturefly

Thewriting is powerful and yet understated, whether in Winman's observations about relationships or her evocations of landscapes. With her skilful command of language and deep emotional insight, Winman has produced in the exquisitely crafted Tin Man her best novel to date.

Observer

This book is why I read

Nina Pottell, Prima

'It was beautiful, and occasionally, it hurt,' says Michael - and this exactly describes the wonder of this bruisingly tender book

Psychologies magazine

This is an astoundingly beautiful book. It drips with tenderness. It breaks your heart and warms it all at once

Matt Haig

A beautiful, life-giving book that will constantly surprise you

Attitude

Heart-wrenching... a short but powerful novel about love and friendship

Woman & Home

It's exquisite. There are stories you just feel privileged to read. Sarah's writing breaks you and heals you, all in the same moment, and I haven't been so moved, and so in love with a book and its characters in a very long time

Joanna Cannon, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP

Tin Man is Winman's best novel yet. The playful subversiveness still bubbles away but there's a new candour there, an acceptance of needs and flaws that proves deeply touching. This is storytelling as cruelly kind as fate itself

Patrick Gale

An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss

Guardian

[Tin Man has] themes of childhood bonds and traumas, and gay love, which she evokes with tender sympathy

The Times

A beautifully written novel

Daily Mail

I didn't think a perfect book could exist, I was wrong

Simon Savidge

Tin Man may be a short novel, at just 195 pages, but it packs an enormous punch

Independent

[A] beautiful story about love, loss and longing

Red Magazine

Heart-breaking and heart-making

Ali Land, author of GOOD ME, BAD ME

Emotionally charged

Express.co.uk

Winman writes with a poetry that makes the impact of Tin Man so much greater than its 200 pages... ephemeral yet powerful... Every fleeting moment is worth repeating, again and again

Stylist

[Tin Man] is a marvel, full of love, longing and loss, huge emotions described in such a beautifully understated way that their impact is all the more powerful